If you’re looking for a more healthful way to eat, you’ve probably heard about the Paleo diet. For those of you who haven’t, the basic idea is to eat like our hunter-gatherer ancestors did before the development of agriculture and diets heavy in grains like rice and wheat. Paleo is a protein heavy diet, but [...]
Posted on April 23, 2013 in Cookbooks,Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Featured,Food Sensitivities,Gluten Free and tagged as Paleo, pork
As I explained in last month’s Secret Recipe Club post for Spaghetti with Spicy Cauliflower Sauce, making pasta is a bit of an ordeal at my house since I only have two proper burners on my stovetop. So when I saw Robin from Robin Restored’s post on Crockpot Spaghetti, I thought, “This is the recipe [...]
Posted on April 15, 2013 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Featured,Gluten Free,Recipes and tagged as Secret Recipe Club, Udis Community
We’re in the midst of college basketball finals, and one thing my family loves to do is eat junk food while watching the games on TV. It drives me crazy to see them noshing on chips, dips and greasy foods like chicken wings. At the urging of Hidden Valley® Original Ranch®, I decided to create [...]
Posted on March 28, 2013 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Featured,Recipes and tagged as chicken, healthy snacking, party food
After taking a break for the holidays, I’m once again participating in the Secret Recipe Club. This month’s assigned blog was Secrets of the Cookie Princess. While Colleen, the Cookie Princess, is obsessed with cookie baking, she also likes to cook up other dishes like Chicken Enchilada Soup and Crispy Quinoa Bites, which are two [...]
Posted on February 11, 2013 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Featured,Recipes and tagged as chicken, Secret Recipe Club
One of my blogging goals for 2013 was to join another online foodie event like Secret Recipe Club. Somehow I stumbled on to Cook the Books. Well, this month, Cook the Books is teaming up with Food ‘n Flix to bring us dishes based on both the movie and the book, The Hunger Games . [...]
Posted on January 24, 2013 in Books,Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Featured,Gluten Free,Movies,Recipes and tagged as beef
Do you have a favorite crock pot shredded pork recipe? I bet that you make it with barbecue sauce! How about cooking up some shredded pork with a Sherry-Orange Dijon Sauce with Holland House® Sherry Cooking Wine instead? I made this for Christmas dinner and served it over brown rice – delicious! I loved combining [...]
Posted on January 3, 2013 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Featured,Recipes and tagged as Holland House, Mizkan, pork
I’m not much for roller coasters after getting sick many years ago at both Knott’s Berry Farm and Disneyland. (Never again!) So while the Brandcation gals were riding the Wild Eagle (and being filmed by the Discovery Channel), I was busy nerding out over the food at Dollywood as well as the folk art and [...]
Posted on October 12, 2012 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Featured,Recipes,Travel and tagged as Brandcation, chicken, Dollywood, Tennessee
Looking for a way to save money on your family’s meals? Look no further. There are plenty of ways to cook up great meals and save via savings directories like Coupon Cravings. Follow these tips and you’ll be saving in no time! Crockpots Cooking with a crockpot is an excellent way to save time and [...]
Posted on June 20, 2012 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker and tagged as savings
For this month’s Secret Recipe Club assignment, I was partnered with Alison of Sweet Flours. As you can guess by her blog’s name, Alison blogs about sweet treats and baked goods. Luckily, for this healthy, gluten free blogger, she also makes savory dishes like chili. I was so enticed by her recent post, slow cooker [...]
Posted on March 12, 2012 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Featured,Gluten Free,Recipes and tagged as Secret Recipe Club
A recent culinary challenge I faced was cooking the mountain goat my husband bagged in September. We had our local game processor make the meat into German, Italian and chorizo sausage – all of which have been fantastic. However, I was concerned with the steaks and chops. Would they be gamey? I tentatively grilled up [...]
Posted on October 27, 2011 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes,Venison and tagged as Holland House, Mizkan
An updated version of Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook: 700 Great Slow Cooker Recipes by Phyllis Pellman Good was recently released. Her Fix-It and Forget-It Diabetic Cookbook: Slow-Cooker Favorites to Include Everyone! and Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly: Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker are better cookbooks for those of us who want to watch what [...]
Posted on June 24, 2010 in Cookbooks,Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes,Weight Watchers
This high fiber and protein and low in Weight Watchers POINTS recipe comes from The Vegetarian Slow Cooker: Over 200 Delicious Recipes by Judith Finlayson. She believes that more people than ever are choosing to reduce their consumption of meat for health, environmental and financial reasons. Instead, they’re choosing to eat diets rich in vegetables, [...]
Posted on April 8, 2010 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes,Veggies,Weight Watchers and tagged as healthy recipes
I look forward to having corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day even though it’s high in fat and calories. (Every ounce of lean corned beef brisket has 53 calories and 2.2 grams of fat. Check the label to see what type you’re buying.) To make it my slow cooker corned beef and cabbage [...]
Posted on March 16, 2010 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes,Weight Watchers and tagged as healthy recipes, St Patrick's Day
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